2012 Peach Festival - Coming Soon!

The New Website is up and we will be taking applications for the 2012 Peach Festival mid March!

The address for the new site is at middletownpeachfestival.com

Pre-order "St. Anne's Church in the Appoquinimink Hundred"

 

"St. Anne's Church in the Appoquinimink Hundred", a history book by Dorothy Colburn, will be available by June 19, Old St. Anne's Day. 

 

The book covers the history of St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Middletown, from 1704 to 2005.  Hard cover, at 700 pages, it will sell for $35, but there is a special pre-publication price of $30 for orders sent with funds before April 30.  For details, call (302) 378-2401. 

Come visit our newest exhibit - "What a Difference 50 Years Makes!"

March 2011

 

Our exhibit, “Middletown: Commercial Crossroads through the Centuries” was closed at the end of last year and has been replaced with the current exhibit “What a Difference 50 Years Makes!”

It opened on Saturday, February 12, the 150th anniversary of Middletown’s incorporation. It features displays showing how dramatically life in this area has changed in the past 400 years, and yet how some things are timeless and unchanging. We are still looking for more local artifacts dating to about 1961, 1911, 1861, 1811, etc.

MUSEUM NOTES

 March 2011

 

A 3-shelf display case donated by the Kazmarceks is located at the top of the stairs, and will be used for small changing exhibits. Presently it has magazines from 1920’s in it, with illustrations by Bessie Wilcox Smith. Do you have a small collection you would like to lend us for a few months? Call Alison Matsen at 378-8265 or 302-740-5544.

Recent acquisitions include:

►Barbara Erskine: Cochran family items, including Bible, diary
►Cindy Shields: items from Reynolds (justice of peace) (attic of Jean Birch’s house)
►Bob McDowell, early 20th century items from Middletown and Rothwell genealogy.
►Middletown Transcript, early sets of newspapers. Thanks to Dave Matsen for lugging them up to our attic.

Recent museum purchases:

►1953 card table from Odessa with local business advertising on playing surface
►Dress forms from Historic Odessa Foundation
►Items from Colonial Williamsburg stores for our 18th century displays

2011 Peach Festival

We are excited to announce that the Middletown Historical Socieity website is done and available for Peach Festival Registrations and Payments!!

MiddletownPeachFestival.com

2011 Calendar of Events

 

Regular Monthly Members' Meeting for 2011 will begin in February.  We have lined up some great topics and speakers!  All meetings will be held at the Old Academy building at 7:30 p.m.

 

Date Speaker
February 15, 2011                          George Contant,  Researching local history using our newly acquired ability to search the old Middletown Transcripts on the computer
March 15, 2011 Alison Matsen, "Slices of Life: the Middletown area every 50 years from 1611 to 2011"
April 19, 2011 TBA
May 17, 2011 TBA
June 21, 2011 NOTE TIME CHANGE:  6:00 pm, covered dish supper at a local historic house

 

All Meetings are held at Old Academy Building, 216 N. Broad Street, Middletown unless otherwise noted. 

All lectures are held in the Old Academy Building, 216 N. Broad Street at 7:30 p.m.  A short business meeting will be held following the talk.  Guests are welcome to stay for the meeting or are free to leave.

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